On January 18, 1927, the Frankfurter Zeitung daily newspaper featured one of the celebrated feuilletons Joseph Roth had ...

Modernity should not just be a project for the elite and the wealthy, but should educate the common people and benefit the poor. It is a grave mistake to consider modernity a lofty thought that does ...

For much of the 19th century, Ireland seemed “simply out of time with the modern world”, as Enda Delaney writes in his ...

Modernity seems to produce its own specific pathologies. These pathologies are present as global catastrophes, such as global wars, climate crises, and genocides, or as more “common” and almost ...

The famously cute and sweet side of the Netherlands — with its canals, windmills, and tulip fields — is indeed a delight to ...

One of the most useful concepts for understanding the world today is the late Marxist sociologist Zygmunt Bauman’s brainchild “liquid modernity.” I used it in The Benedict Option, and continue to find ...

The youth-led protests that eventually brought down Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina were sparked, in part, by his ...

The events of the 11 September have stirred up a sometimes acrimonious debate about Islam and modernity. Some commentators in the West say the two are not compatible. Others, including many Muslims, ...

Fashion is often shocking – bloomers! the miniskirt! punk! – but it is only rarely the subject of a shock. Indeed, for a business that trades in the novelty of disruption, fashion has long been ...